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Coronavirus leaked from the wuhan lab. have you seen any evidence that would dismiss that? >> no, not fully. in other words, the problem of the trump -- of president trump throughout the pandemic was because everything was so politicized. you cant take this comment about what he said about the wuhan lab outside of the context of everything going on. him going after governors, him saying to take these drugs and not that drug. everything was so politicized that there was a political counter reacti...

If you look at the lab workers that have been sick enough to go to the hospital, their blood samples, their serum samples do they exist, we have been told different things. we have been told maybe they destroyed and being able to look at the blood samples and look at the genetic analysis of the coronaviruss in the institute of virology and compare them to the initial insurrfections that may more evidence and a deep look at the forensic evaluation of the lab would be helpful. something that has b...

Reasons and not the only reason that the biden administration is doubling down on the investigation. and the other reason is theres increasing pressure from the public and because the chinese government told the world health organization they are not going to cooperate anymore. for all of the reasons its become obvious that we need to look in to all the theories including the lab leak theory and hope fully they will do it now. >> the times is reporting, and suggesting that the government may not...

Evidence sitting in other agencies in the u.s. government, including defense department, dhs, nih, and other organizations that have worked with organizations that worked with these wuhan labs. and its kind of crazy to think that, 18 months after the outbreak, that there is still piles of evidence they havent looked at and i think thats one of the reasons but not the only reason that the biden administration is doubling down on this investigation. the other reason is because there is increasing ...

To another animal and then to person. now, up until just recently the animal theory was the widely accepted one, what the world health organization team that investigated in wuhan said they thought was the most likely scenario, but now that the biden administration is adding urgency to this new push to look into whether the virus did actually leak out of the wuhan lab after those lab workers were hospitalized, now we are learning that there is evidence that hasnt been examined. "the new york tim...

About and what could this yield? >> the administration is being very close to the chest on the question of whats in this data. what we think, because they keep saying they need to apply a lot of computational power to it, is that it has something to do with the movement of people, the movement of -- the early movement of the actual disease in wuhan, and perhaps the movement of scientists and lab workers in and out of that wuhan virology lab. this was an unexpected finding for us, john. i would e...

Is -- is a fair amount of time. but, you know, if you go back and look at sars and say how long did that take? it was a couple years before even the intermediary host, you will remember, was really identified. and 15 or so years after that, before the horseshoe bat was identified as the -- you know, the origin of the species. so, it can take some time to do this. but going back to those lab workers. were they infected? do they have antibodies? we know antibodies can sort of be a trace, a remnant...

But instead wants to use i the epidemic to politically manipulate and to stigmatise. many scientists still favour a natural origin. coronaviruses are known to have jumped from animals to humans in markets like this in the past. lab leaks, though, have also happened before, and the wuhan lab has collected, studied and experimented on coronaviruses on a huge scale. when we tried to report on this science, we were followed, obstructed and prevented from filming. have you found the origins of the co...

They were told they were compatible, but what were the symptoms? what tests were done? was it the flu? was it something else? also we were told that an antibody test was done and the results were negative on these lab workers. okay. wheres that test, where are the results, who did the test, exactly what test was done because there are a variety of antibody tests. this is superimportant. did they save blood samples from when these workers were sick because if they did, you can duo back and test a...

But what the president is also making clear here is the united states will take a more involved approach with the investigating covid-19. just a few days ago they were saying they did not want to leap ahead of any of the international investigations but the president making it very clear he wants to get to the bottom of this and hes tasking the community with doing that. brianna? >> theyre stepping in to doing their own things too. arlette sainz at the white house, thank you. >> what else could ...